Allie Janoch is a founder and CEO with 12 years of engineering-led leadership experience building SaaS that helps industrial and manufacturing companies navigate complex environmental compliance. She co-founded Mapistry to bring visibility and operational rigor to environmental teams at customers ranging from SMBs to Fortune 100s, combining software, training, and tech-enabled services to reduce risk and compliance costs. A computer scientist with graduate training from UC Berkeley and early research experience in computer vision at IQ Engines (later integrated into Flickr), she blends deep technical chops with product and go-to-market strategy. Allie remains hands-on with engineering concerns, contributing to open-source projects like Bookshelf by fixing tricky ORM polymorphic relationship issues and strengthening core relational behaviors. Based in Berkeley, she pairs a pragmatic startup operator’s focus on measurable outcomes with a passion for applying AI and systems thinking to regulated, safety-critical domains.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
A simple Node.js ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 built on top of Knex.js
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits in 26 days
Contributions summary:Allie primarily contributed to enhancing the `bookshelf/bookshelf` repository by addressing issues related to polymorphic relationships within the ORM. Their work involved modifying the model formatting to correctly handle and resolve the '_parsed' suffix used in field names. They implemented tests to ensure the fix worked correctly and added events for attaching and detaching of records within the ORM. These changes improve Bookshelf's core functionality for relational database interactions.
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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